Word: acident
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...juvenile was arrested at the Harvard Square kiosk at 3:30 p.m. on charges of drinking in public and possession and distribution of a "Class B" substance. "Class B" substances include drugs like cocaine and some types of acid...
BAKELITE Leo Baekeland was hoping to create a synthetic shellac when he mixed together carbolic acid and formaldehyde in his Yonkers, N.Y., lab in 1907. Instead he created the first totally synthetic plastic-phenolic resin and changed the world. Some mistake...
...most-fun software I saw came from a small Madison, Wis., shop called Sonic Foundry. Sonic's new line of sound-editing programs lets you create amazing music, even if you have a tin ear. I tried Sonic's Acid Rock ($49.95), which comes with more than 500 sound clips. You can listen to any clip by simply selecting it; when you find a sound you like, slap it onto a track in the editing room. Lay down a bass line, add percussion and instrumentation--the software will even resolve the key so that everything harmonizes. What...
...phosphorous acid spill in the Lyman Physics Laboratories followed a week later, requiring the evacuation of the Lyman, Jefferson and Cruft laboratories. The chemical was leaking from a container in the basement machine shop of Lyman...
...board outside Lenny Solomon's office in Mallinckrodt Laboratory is filled with articles on "safety news." It includes emergency phone numbers, an article titled "Contact Lenses and Chemicals: an update" and a display of different types of gloves and their uses. There are pages about compressed gas cylinders, hydrofluoric acid and hazardous waste, amid a safety report about incidents, analysis and prevention...